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Walmart "fat girl costumes"

Walmart "fat girl costumes"

"Fat girl costumes" were perhaps labeled as such by a third-party vendor without a grasp of the English language, but it nontheless appeared on the nation's perhaps most identifiably American store's website.

Walmart issued a statement: “We are very sorry and appalled that this third-party seller listed their item with this description on our online marketplace. It is a clear violation of our policy and has been removed, and we are investigating the seller to determine how this could have happened.”

We’re wondering if it happened the same way "fat girl costumes” happened on the retail giant’s website in 2014.

Jezebel first reported that a reader, looking for a Halloween costume, was directed to the section for “fat girl costumes.”

The offending section was eventually removed and users searching "fat girl costumes" were directed to similar products… in the plus-sized section.

At the time, Jezebel noted some other Walmart gems, like “these racist American Indian parody outfits” (still on the site), a selection of “gypsy” costumes (still available) and fat Tinkerbell (no longer on the site). The description for the fluffy fairy read, "Tinkerbell really let herself go since she has been out of work for so many years!"

Really not that clever, guys.

Maybe Walmart needs to pay more attention to third-party vendor descriptions and take a hint from news sites and get a copy editor! It might not be a terrible idea to hire a few people to review copy before it gets posted to the website and seared in our brains forever.

Twitter user @nord2286 said it a bit more directly: “Maybe you should fire your QC people. Do you let your vendors post on your website without proofing it first? You guys are ridiculous.”

Maybe you should fire your QC people. Do you let your vendors post on your website without proofing it first? You guys are ridiculous.